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 Post subject: GOOD NEWS: IP-Relay has blocked scammers!
PostPosted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:09 pm 
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Effective February 7th Stellar Nordia which owns MyIpRleay/Ip-relay.com and myiprelay.com have effectively BLOCKED nearly ALL Nigerian/West African originating scam callers.

While this is a great thing for the world of scam fighting.. unfortunately because these scam calls were a large part of our call volume- the company has had to do some severe lay-offs centerwide.
Currently in the Memphis relay center 200 out of 260 operators are being cut.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:22 pm 
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That is so sad that so many had to get laid off, but it is wonderful that a company is taking a pro-active step to stopping these scams!

Do you know if there was a press release on this information? I would LOVE to send it to all of my media contacts, and we could also use it to encourage other companies to block service from scammers!

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 Post subject: Re: GOOD NEWS: IP-Relay has blocked scammers!
PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:17 am 
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So, from the numbers you provided, 77% of all calls coming through your facility were bogus? I get that number by the fact that 77% of the operators were laid off.

If that is true, then a77% of all IP relay companie's revenue is based in fraud.

A sad statistic.


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 Post subject: Re: GOOD NEWS: IP-Relay has blocked scammers!
PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:20 am 
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Looks like some of your jobs are being outsourced as well........

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/214719.html


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